"The biggest hardship that i have faced was being disowned and being rejected by my own relatives after the death of my parents.All of our properties were seized and we were abandoned to fend for ourselves,yet we were so young and really needed the love and protection of our loved ones."

"The biggest hardship I have faced in my life, is the constant ailments. I have been seriously struggling to meet my medical cost since I am elderly, and unable to take part in any income generating activity."

"The achievement I am most proud of is getting married and paying dowry for my wife. I have even done a church a wedding and as such I can now live peacefully with my wife and concentrate on building our family together ."

"The biggest hardship I currently face is lack of enough money to pay school fees for my children. Our main source of income is rain fed subsistence farming but this is often not enough to cater for their school fees. If I am unable to raise the required fees they may have to defer their studies and this will really demoralise them."

"My proudest achievement is having worked tirelessly in my farm last year in order to pay school fees for my son who was in his final year in secondary school. The school where he was learning used to accept maize as payment for school fees and this motivated me to really till my farm in order for him to complete his secondary school education."

"The biggest hardship that I face right now is lack of a sustainable source of income. I am a casual worker and these jobs are not always available, this often means that I cannot always provide basic necessities for my family and this depresses me at times."

"My proudest achievement was constructing my house last year. It has provided shelter and security for my family and am not worried of lossing household items through theft anymore."

"My biggest hardship is lack of enough income to sustain my large family. I depends on working in farms as a casual labouror to earn income. Budgeting for my family and paying school fees has not been easy"

"My biggest hardship is lack of proper housing to provide shelter for my family. The little money I saved I spent it on paying school fees for my sons."

""The achievement i am proud of is that, i am a single mother of three children and out of my small business, i manage to provide my children's basic needs without depending on my parents' resources.""